Wednesday, May 23, 2007

FOI ruling expected on Public Ed Foundation --UPDATE

After a hearing this morning, Judge Jay Moody said he'll rule late today or early tomorrow on a Little Rock woman's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Little Rock Public Education Foundation. Helen Davis, who has two grandchildren in Little Rock schools, asked to see minutes from PEF board meetings and all written contracts going back two years, but foundation officials insisted it's a private entity not subject to the FOI -- despite receiving public money from the LRSD until last fall to pay part of Executive Director Lisa Black's salary and, currently, to help fund Project SOAR, an assessment program.

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The Little Rock Board of Directors voted tonight to table for eight weeks an ordinance that homeless advocates say would severely limit the ability of charities to feed homeless people in city parks. Before the ordinance was punted, Vice Mayor Kathy Webb proposed a nine-member commission to study the issue and make recommendations to the board.

The Arkansas highway department's representative on the Metroplan board of directors told the board today that the department is requesting an exception to the planning agency's cap on six lanes for its 30 Crossing project to widen Interstate 30 from six to 10 (and more) lanes.

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